Portland high school teacher Bob Sauer said he took a flashlight to his tree-filled backyard over the weekend on the small chance he might find a plane part that had torn off an Alaska Airlines jet mid-flight on January 5, 2024.   “In the flashlight beam I could see that there was something gleaming white underneath the trees in the back that isn’t normally there,” Sauer told Reuters.   U.S. authorities investigating the incident on the Boeing 737 MAX 9 that depressurized the plane, leading to an emergency landing, had asked people in the Cedar Hills suburb of Portland, Oregon, to look out for the missing door plug as a vital piece of evidence.   Sauer, a science teacher whose students had just been learning about the physics principles of impulse and momentum, said his trees had acted like an air bag.   🔗 Read more about the investigation at our link in bio.   #Reuters #video #news #737Max #737Max9 #737landing #AlaskaAirlines #Boeing #Boeing737MAX9 #emergencylanding #FAA #investigati...